Codex Health Claims Guides Development Renewed By Nutrition Committee
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Codex Alimentarius Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) is planning to initiate "new work" on the elaboration of proposed draft recommendations on the scientific basis for health claims, according to a recently-released Codex report
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